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There are a lot of hacking stories brewing right now. A malicious attack was made on the Epilepsy Foundation website forums that triggered seizures in some users, and there's a Facebook hack that you can use to change your friends' moods.

There's also a massive attack unfolding on major websites. It's a complex story, but it involves redirection from a search results page to a website full of trojans. PC users should pay careful attention to where they click.

Do you use the internet to download music? No? Too bad - the music industry wants you to pay a tax on your ISP bill too. The blogosphere thinks this plan is similar to a protection racket. Some of them even have hilarious projections of what our future bills could look like.

Meanwhile, Comcast and Bittorrent have kissed and made up. They'll work together to make their technologies more compatible.

Don't you want to know who's watching all those YouTube videos that get thousands of hits? YouTube Insight offers traffic facts to users who upload videos. It's a start, but hopefully they'll offer more down the road.

It's the battle of the network streaming video sites! CBS just launched a high def streaming player in the lab section of their website.

Craigslist just launched multiple language support. I wonder if Parisian junk is better than ours?